Professor Michael Sturley holds the Fannie Coplin Regents Chair in Law at the School of Law, University of Texas at Austin. An expert in maritime law and U.S. Supreme Court practice, Professor Sturley clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell and practiced with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City before joining the University of Texas in 1984. He writes primarily in the fields of maritime and commercial law, and he co-directs the University of Texas Supreme Court Clinic. He is the author of The Legislative History of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act and the Travaux Préparatoires of the Hague Rules (Rothman, 1990); a co-author of The Rotterdam Rules (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010), Voyage Charters (Informa, 4th ed. 2014), and Admiralty and Maritime Law in the United States (Carolina Academic Press, 3d ed. 2015); and the author or co-author of over a hundred articles and book chapters on maritime law.

Gen Goto is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, in Japan (since 2010). He visited Harvard Law School as Visiting Scholar at East Asian Legal Studies (2013-2015). After graduating from Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo in 2003 (LL.B.), Professor Goto had been Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo (2003-2006), and Lecturer (2006-2008) and Associate Professor (2008-2010) at Gakushuin University in Tokyo. Also, he had assisted Japanese Government on law reforms as Researcher of Japanese Ministry of Justice (2010-2013)(for reform of Companies Act), and as Professional Member of Financial System Council of Japanese Financial Services Agency (2011-2013)(for reform of Insurance Business Act). His articles in English can be found at http://ssrn.com/author=608493.

Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at Somerville College, Oxford. He has previously held posts at the University of Auckland and Jesus College, Cambridge. He has degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge (undergraduate), Harvard Law School (LLM) and Brasenose College, Oxford (BCL). His teaching and research interests lie broadly in the law of obligations and the corporate and commercial law fields, with particular focus on domestic and international banking law, corporate finance, and shareholder remedies. His books include Ellinger, Lomnicka and Hare, Modern Banking Law (OUP, 2011) and Watts, Campbell and Hare, Company Law in New Zealand (LexisNexis, 2nd ed, 2015).

Dr Steven Hazelwood was a partner in a leading City of London shipping and insurance law firm, serving in their London, Hong Kong and Singapore offices where he was Senior Resident Partner. Specializing in complex insurance and marine casualties he has handled cases in the highest courts such as the English Court of Appeal and House of Lords and international arbitrations in London and New York. He has taught law at various universities in England and around the world and has been an examiner to the Bar Council of England & Wales and to the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers.

A former Consultant to the Shipping Division of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, he has also spoken at numerous international conferences and seminars. He has published many articles on shipping law and marine insurance and is the author of P & I Clubs: Law & Practice and one of the General Editors of Marsden & Gault on Collisions at Sea (14 Edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2016).

Professor Michael Klausner is Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School. He teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, corporate governance, business transactions and financial regulation. His research has included theoretical and empirical analyses of corporate governance, liability risk for corporate officers and directors, securities litigation, takeover defenses, standardization of contracts, and the economics underlying business transactions. He oversees Stanford Securities Litigation Analytics, which maintains a large database covering securities class actions and SEC enforcement actions, and he is currently writing a book entitled Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1997, he was a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, a White House Fellow and deputy associate director in the Office of Policy Development in the White House, and a corporate law practitioner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C. and Hong Kong.

Daryl Lim is an Associate Professor and
Director of the Center for Intellectual Property
(IP), Information & Privacy Law at The John
Marshall Law School. He teaches courses in
intellectual property (IP) law as well as
antitrust law. His courses are Patent and Trade
Secret Law, Antitrust Law, IP and Antitrust Law
and the IP overview course. In 2014, he was
nominated "Professor of the Year," and was one
of 24 law professors worldwide nominated for a
list of top 10 antitrust/competition law
professors under 40 on the Antitrust &
Competition Policy Blog.

Daryl Lim has graduate law degrees from Stanford
University and the National University of
Singapore (NUS). At Stanford Law School, he
received the Franklin Family Fellowship and the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Research Grant.
He also has an undergraduate degree in law from
NUS, and a degree in economics and management
from the University of London (London School of
Economics).

Professor Francis Reynolds is an Emeritus Professor of Law in the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College, Doctor of Civil Law, Fellow of the British Academy, barrister, Honorary Q.C. and Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple. He is also standing consultant on English law to Ang & Partners, Singapore; Honorary Professor, International Maritime Law Institute of the IMO, Malta; Titular Member of the Comité Maritime International; and Supporting Member of the LMAA. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Auckland, Otago University, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, Monash University, National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University and the University of Hong Kong. He was the writer of Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency between 1968 and 2013, the writer (with Sir Guenter Treitel) of Carver on Bills of Lading, and a contributor to Benjamin's Sale of Goods, Chitty on Contracts and English Private Law. He was the Editor of the Law Quarterly Review from 1987 to 2013.

Professor Saidov is a Professor of Commercial Law at the King's College London. He specialises in international commercial law, having joined The Dickson Poon School of Law in August 2015 as Professor of Commercial Law.

He was previously based in the University of Birmingham, where he was Reader in Law (2013-2015), Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law (2009-2013) and Lecturer in Commercial Law (2004-2009).

Professor Saidov holds PhD and LLM (with Distinction) degrees from the University of East Anglia and an LLB degree from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Uzbekistan). His expertise lies in the law of the international sale of goods, international commercial law instruments, remedies for breach of contract and law governing international oil and gas operations.

Professor Robert Burrell is a Professor of
Law at the University of Sheffield and
University of Melbourne. He worked previously at
King's College London and the Australian
National University. He has also held visiting
positions at the University of Cambridge and at
the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New
York.

His research interests are in the field of
Copyright Law, Trade Mark Law, Nineteenth
Century Legal History and Theory and Practice of
Regulation. He is the author, with Allison
Coleman, of Copyright Exceptions: The Digital
Impact (CUP 2005) and Australian
Trademark Law (OUP 2010 and 2016).

Mr Michael Handler is an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He teaches and researches in the field of intellectual property law, focusing on domestic and international aspects of trade mark law and the law of geographical indications of origin.

He was the Associate Dean (Education) at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law from 2013-15. Before joining UNSW, he worked at the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA) at The Australian National University, and at the University of Sydney.

Professor Tunde Ogowewo teaches Corporate Finance Law, Corporate Governance, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law at King's College London. He was a Global Hauser Professor of Law at NYU Law School, New York. He holds advanced degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science and King's College London.

He is a Barrister (Middle Temple) and was a Solicitor (England and Wales) and also a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He sits as international commercial arbitrator and has edited highly acclaimed international academic journals and is the author of several academic works. His expertise has been cited judicially: viz., Meridien [2012]; Intercontinental Bank [2011]; Serious Organised Crime Agency [2011]; Santolina Investment [2007]; Williams [2007]; Alamieseyegha [2005]; and Koroi v. Commissioner of Inland Revenue [2001].

Tunde serves as Trustee, International Senior Lawyers Project. He is also Advisory Board member of the Africa International Legal Awareness. He is a member of the Court of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre and has advised the UK Government as a member of the Roundtable of Expert Stakeholders by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills on aspects of Takeover Regulation, and the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was appointed as Co-Chairman by the US State Department of Commerce to lead a project to develop a Model Law on Foreign Investment in Africa.

Professor Jeffrey Waincymer is an Honorary
Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, Monash
University in Melbourne, Australia. His research
is primarily in the fields of international
trade and investment law, international dispute
settlement, arbitration and taxation. He is the
author of Procedure and Evidence in
International Arbitration; WTO Litigation:
Procedural Aspects of Formal Dispute Settlement;
and Australian Income Tax: Principles and Policy
(2nd ed) and is a joint author of A Guide to
the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules; A Practical
Guide to International Commercial Arbitration;
and also International Trade Law: Commentary
and Materials (2nd ed).

Professor Jeffrey Waincymer is also a qualified
legal practitioner. He is an Australian
Government Nominee as a non-governmental
panellist for the WTO and has acted as a
panellist. He has also been a nominated ICSID
panellist and has been an ICC, SIAC and HKIAC as
well as ad hoc appointed arbitrator.